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If the Internet plays a part in how you earn your living, then you should be concerned about the current state of IoT security, which threatens to bring unprecedented instability to the public facing network....More

Microsoft Corp. is creating a version of the Windows 10 operating system that will run on laptops powered by Qualcomm Inc. chips, a move that could erode Intel Corp.’s dominance in PCs and help the software maker gain a bigger foothold in mobile computing....More

Chander Dhall, one of the most well-known technical leaders in the development industry, is once again taking the helm of our Development and DevOps track for the 2017 conference. Chander’s contributions are one of the biggest reasons why IT/Dev Connections is considered the best developer’s conference each year....More

To help you always remain in control of your data, Veeam has developed a solution that allows you to mitigate the risk of losing access to your Exchange Online email data and ensure availability to your users. Meet the new Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365....More

It's readily apparent that Slack is feeling the heat from Microsoft's new Teams collaboration suite. Now, they're doing something about it, with a broad new partnership with Google that will help keep Slack and Google Team Drives in better sync while offering some other nice new perks, like in-Slack document preview....More

At the initial announcement of the Creators Update for Windows 10 in October it seemed as if the next major feature update to the OS would be focused on consumer features but that is not the case according to new information from Microsoft....More

Two new AI training grounds — one from Google, the other from the non-profit OpenAI — hope to help jumpstart general AI that can quickly gain competency across a variety of tasks, from driving a car to juggling your calendar for you.
The first is Universe, from OpenAI. With just a few lines of code, you can set a given AI agent to work on almost any application....More

This will mean a significant shift for system admins because these updates will be released in one large update package instead of a collection of individual updates.

That in turn means that if one patch included in the cumulative update causes an issue on a system then the entire package will have to be uninstalled while waiting on a fix instead of just an individual update.

System admins have been talking about this on social media over the last few days and expressing their concerns about this shift so we would like to hear from you on this as well.

Do you agree or disagree with the changes being made by Microsoft and their servicing plans for supported versions of Windows? What are the pros and cons in your eyes to the new procedure?

Vote Agree or Disagree and then let us know in the comments what influenced your decision.